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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

The decrease of the debt less cash in
the Treasury during May was, in round
numbers, 100000, lSs,SSS. 99S). This
makes total reduction for the eleven
months of the fiscal year closing with
this month of $93,0OO,OOO
AT this rate the debt will De reduced
$lOO,0OO,OO0.
What will be done with the surplus
when there are no longer any interest
bearing bonds payable
Customs receipts in May were about
sS'OOOOOO larger than year ago and in
tefnal revenue about Sl7OOOO0. The
" ordinary expenditures were So .OOO.
900 greater and pensions were 1000 900
more.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

Upon The bali thus covered place glowing
coal taken from the fire with pair of tongs,
and then blow ON the coal, in order % render
10 incandr,cent The coal viii continue 90
burn brightly without in any way burning co.
damaging tine fabric upon which IT lies Tie
reason Of this is that the metal, being an OK
cellent conductor of heat, ami having, at the
same time. great calorile capacity, aisorte
all the heat developed by the combustion Of
the coal. and the fabric, taking mp scarcely
any Of the heat, remain, during the entire
experiment at "a temperature Jess than Chat az
which It would De- harmed
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

UUne- Uut tne tu- TIE LDNU MIX IUH-
graver bad in the TRAIT
meantime struck OF thirty copies. These
were long kept in secret, and when
brought ont commanded high prices from
collectors Hon Emory Stors, the noted
attorney, paid 1850 for one and brought 10 TO
the United States. After bis death it was
sold q Mr.. +. NJ. Knox, who allowed d copy
10 b. taken and published in The New York
Graphic Of May -. IL represents the queen
as She appeared when dressed for her mar
rage on Feb. lO, 1910. and is pretty enough,
despite the elongated neck which provoked
the prince consort. The fact that the queen
completed her sixty-seventh year on May "A
gives additional interest 10 this curious PIC
tUra
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

The invention of a new optical glass Is said
to he creating "a sensation n the German
scientific world The glass owing tolts great
reirarting power, promises 90 be u marked
influence iu practical optics, inasmuch as IL
will admit OF the production of lenses of short
width. such as 10 has hitherto been impossible
70 obtain. For microscopic photography 10
will be of the greatest Importance.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03
sense and sex

a recent writer makes the statement that
the senses are not parallel ia men aud women
The latter possess o. greater perfection the
sense OF touch The senses of hearing and
sight are relatively the same in both sexes,
but il is considered that men have the sense
more delcatciy developed than women The
sense of smell was, i'm the experiment, made
doubly as acute in men as in women No
reason is ass gncd for the distinction
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

Colonel Hawkins aspi'es to the task of
remodelng the tactics so as to dispense
with counting of the soldiers in ranks.
ltwould seem plain TO every soldier that
there should be a way to simplify the
movements that are still cumbersome
even after Uptons plan haAreformed the
old pipe clay methods
When a regiment has been fighting for
hours and has lost great many men, il
forms and manUuyres very effectively
without arranging the numbers, and it
does seem that Colonel Hawkins is on
the right track and will do big thing.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

a Pemsy iyania exchange claims that
there are iu littsburg sixty-six natural gas
managing lO1 wells, and supplying
gas through over 300 miles of pipe, OF which
- mile, are situated in the city proper The
total area of pipe lealing into llttsburg Is
given al ,fi6,GOs square inches, and the total
capacity OF the lines is estimated AT over
go 90, 900 cubic feet OF gas Per day
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

Nine years ago Turkey assigned the
Island Of Cypress TO be administered and
occupied by England in return for a
pledge of protection against Russia on
her Asiatic frontier. The Sultan has just
coded the island completely TO England,
which indicates that the understanding
as TO Englands co operation with Iur-
kew against Russia is sealed.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

A new aduteration Of buttef has been III
vented BY adding gelatine, which absorbs
ten times It's weight cf water, the consistency
OF the butter is retained and the water adul-
teration Is not noticeable.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03
n b. This is irony.

The Dipath and lhG loving so much
to write of the jewel consistency, should
have something to say about the Presi-
dent and his secretary catching POO trout
in one day, and the largest one weighing
only half Of pound
An editorial review i'm one of the or
gans complains Of tae want of Democracy
which would pull the record mp TO POO i'm
numbers and then wilt when little
nerve and party spirit might have put "a
trout on the string that would have
doomed the denomination all along the
line
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

Il am pleased to inform you writes
Mr. A. j. Pea.e, a well-kn0wn advocate
Of the labor cause, that an extensive
revolution against the theories Of the
crowd who would boycott the Sun, is now
occurring in the or ,anizatiOn Of the
Union Labor party. ". \. Sun.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
A RECENT IMPROVEMENT IN TIN
CANS FOR PRESERVING FOOD.

Another AduIteratiOn Of lutheran
Optical Glass Which IL Creating a sen
sation in Germany-Experiment on the
Heat Conductivity Of Metals.
Experiments, which succeed perfectly when
properly performed, on the heat conductviiy
Of metal, are described as follow, in La Ma
ture. Take a copper ball, about three inches in
diameter. and cover il with "a piece Of muslin
or a fine cambria handkerchief.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

t0ria in her bridal
robe. The original
n,.raying has this
curious history;
When the steel
plate was prepared
a proof was taken
and sent % the
queen Prince Al
bert, BIER husband,
objected vehement
ly to the portrait,
because u repre-
sented her with a
long neck. and She
therefore ordered
the plates u be- De
stroyed This was
F.ua Iut tb. sd,
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

You want to see the TIMES great pic
ture on Sunday by our special artist, en-
titled Robinson Crusoe's Island, illus
tratiye Of the policy Of keeping away
people and being monarch of all we sur
yeV
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

The registration has been completed in
Utah but The oath was so hard to swal-
low that there is an immense weakening
of the ballot power, leaving only one vote
TO fifteen people.
The Gentilcs however, will hardly out
number the Saints, and the result will be
that the polygamous old goats will re
quire another gentle twist of the horns
before reform can establish decency and
curtail matrimonial surplus of privilege.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03

Washington is to have committee of
one hundred citizens to look out for the
welfare of the District
OF course some people will want TO
vote, and, as before, it will be settled that
the political model farm of America as
established by the great patriots Of the
Republican party should DE nearer to
the ideal of Repubicanism than would be
possible if the people in it were allowed
10 vote
y B-This is irony
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-06-03
SPECIAL AND PERSONAL.

Minister Rouyier has been sustained in
tie French asse mbly by test vote of
2S5 10 1879.
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RAILROADS.
- n =; : =; xYfs
AIR LINE.

RICHMOND AND DANvILLE RAILROAD.
SHORTEST AND MOST DIRECT
ROUTE TO THE sol TIL. .....
PULLMAN SLEEPEkS On ALL MIN
TRAINS
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THE DAILY TIMES.

PUBLISHED AT
RICHMOND. NIttiNiN'
BY THR
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RAILROADS.
ia q RI -HIIu
6&H s;i'-- 'si. !. 2 ,i,f,-...;y;:s.ss
DICHMOND AND ALICE AVN
IL RAILROAD.

SCHEDULE or TRAINS INEFFr.
MARCH E. l.s-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11

II is not the purpose of the
States here to defend Colonel
Hamilton against any charge or
indictment legally made against
him. We feel that We have as
little right to assert his innocence
as the ferocious fanatics who are
hunting him down have to declare
him guilty before the issue has
been tried under the laws of Mis-.
sissippi. But We have the right
to say that wehave never witness
sed a more reckless, fanatical and
unchristian, not to say brutal at
tempt to cry down a man, to pre-
Judge his case aud condemn HIM,
innocent or guilty, without judge
or jury, than is now being made
to convict Colonel Hamilton by
mobocraey, and so poison public
opinion against him as to deprive
him of an impartial trial. 1t is
our right further to say, that
knowing him as we do, we believe
him to be innocent of a conspi-
racy to assassinate Gambrell or
any other man, because, from his
character and temper, he is utterly
incapable of any such crime. We
venture still further, and say that,
having read with the closest atten.
ton every line of evidence that
has been published, there has not
been a single fact adduced to
prove a conspiracy, or anything
more than an accidental encounter
between the two men, in which
Gambrell, after u terrible life and
death conflict, was killed 10y Col
Hamilton.
The guilt or innocence of Ham
llton in the affair Is a matter fol
the courts Of Mississippi to de
clare, and we do not hesitate t.
say, that conceding him to b'
guilty of conspiracy to assassi
nate his victim, be would not b.
guilty of more shameful crim'
against law, and justice, and civil
ization, than are those fanatica
men and journals who are engaged
in this conspiracy, without witnes
ses, without law or right, in viola
ton of the common principles O
humanity, to assassinate his chal
acter.-New Orleans States.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
THE TURKISH LENT.

In an article on "Llfe Beneath
the Crescent" in the Cosmopolitan,
Emile Julliard says:
The Turkish Lent is much more
severe than that observed In Eu.
rope, and the God of Stamboul is
not SO lenient as that of Rome.
He permits the eating of neither
eggs nor fish. He does not, In fact,
permit the eating of anything; for
Mussulmans are forbidden to eat
and drink anything whateyer from
the rising until the setting of the
sun, and that for twenty.eight con.
secutive days. 1t is forbidden
even to smoke, to take snuff, to
eat lozenges, to use perfumery,
until a report of a cannon, which is
fred In the principal quarters at
twilight, raises this tyrannical in
terdiction to re.establish it at the
first CLEANS of dawn. The nights
of Ramazen are spent in feasting
and smoking called Iftar), which
atone somewhat for the austerlties
of the day.
AS the Turks reckon time accor.
ding to the lunar year, the months
do not follow exactly the order of
the seasons; and when Lent comes
in winter, 1t is extremely tolerable,
for the days consecrated to absti-
nence are short, aud the nights de-
voted to feasting are long. But if
Ramazan comes in midsummer, it
is not at al convenient, and hunger
as well as thirst makes protests
that Mnssulmanic piety does not
always succeed In silencing.
Fortunately the Turk is a sleep
or, and while he Is asleep the Ko-
ran does not forbid him to dream
that he is feastine. But the most
paessinR want ofths 0smanli when
he break hIs last, 3 not 10 eat, but
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
CYPRESS LOGS.
Northwestern Lumberman. ]

Northwestern Lumberman.I
The scarcity Of cypress logs at nearly
all points where cypress is manufactured
emphasizes the Importance Of devising
some way by which timber may be got
ten from swamps and brakes without
floating It out. Unless some such meth
cd be invited and adopted, the supply OF
cypress lumber and shingles will be so
uneven in its nature that no steady de-
mand can be met. There is good deal
of cypress timber in the south, but much
of 1t Is inaccessible. The timber, as q
rule, not only grows in swamps but
stands very thick. The method has
been to deaden the trees, and then wait
for high stage Of water on which to
float them out. If this process alone
were pursued II is plain that the owners
of cypress shingles and saw mills would
necessarily at all times.be obliged to wait
one or two years, and perhaps longer,
for their stock. Again, such method
oflogging causes the price oflogs to play
mp and down too lively. The manufact-
urer often makes contracts, and by all
means he wants n basis OF prices on
which 10 figure. Once having establish
ed trade, he can make no satisfactory
headway ifoblged to pay twice as much
for timber on one day as be will be able
to buy it for three months from that
date. A flood knocks prices down, and
long ''spellr Of dry weather enhances
them. The cypress business cannot be
satisfactory under such conditions.
Manufacturers must be able to get their
logs with certain degree Of regularity.
and at prices more uniform than hereto.
fore, providing they conduct their busi-
ness to the best advantage, or any near
approach to that condition, As has
been remarked in these columns before,
how the log supply will be so regulated
as to bring about amore desirable state
of affairs has not been discovered. At
present more promise attaches to the
steam skidder than to any other appara-
tus. This kind of skidder is in use at
one brake in Mississippi, but whether 1t
can be made of value except in specific
cases remains to be seen. Cypress has
virtues which strongly recommend it,
and which. in fact, make it well nigh In
dispensible for certain purposes 1t is
no wonder, therefore. that the demand
is constantly increasing. and it would
be an unnatural course of events if such
a demand did not sooner or later inspire
some way for getting cypress logs at the
mills at all seasons of the year,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
BLOODY BATTLES.


Again, the young men must not
forget as they read of the great
battles of history that few ofthem
can compare in magnitude with
the greatest battles of the civil
war, and that the battles of that
war were the bloodiest in all the
history of wars IN the proportion
Of killed to those engaged. Wa.
terloo was one of the most desper.
ate and bloody fields chronicled
in European history, and yet Wei.
lington's casualties were less than
II per cent, his losses being 2,432
killed and 95S wounded out of
over 100000 men, while at Shiloh
one side lost in killed and wound.
ed 9I4O. out of $4,000, while their
opponents report their killed and
wounded at 9616. making the casu.
altles about 80 per cent. AT the
great battle of Wagram, Napoleon
lost but about 8 per cent. At
Wurzburg the French lost but 81
per cent, and yet the army gave
up the field and retreated to the
Rhine.
At Racour Marshal SAKE lost
but 2t per cent. At Zurich Mas.
sena lost but s per cent. At La
griz Frederick lost but 81 per
cent. At Malplaquet Marlbor.
ough lost but 10 per cent, and at
Families the same intrepid com.
mander lost but 0 per cent.
AT Contras Henry of Navarro
was reported us cut to pieces, yet
his loss was less than 10 per cent.
AT Lodi Napoleon lost II per cent,
At Yalmy Frederick William lost
but 3 per cent, and at the great
battles Of Marengo and Auster'
litz, sanguinary as they were, Ma
poleon lost an average oflcss than
144 per cent. At Magenta and
Solferino, in 1859, the average loss
of both armies was less than 0 pei
cent. AT Konigrath. In 1866, /
was per cont. At Werth, Speech
eran, Marsile Tour, Gravelott,
and Sedan, in 1870, the averag,
loss was ~ per cent, while at Lin
den Gen. Moreau lost but 4 pc
cent, and the Archduke John los
but per cent. in killed and woun
ded. Americans would scarcel,
call this lively skirmish.
AT Perryyllle, Mufreesborc
| Chlckamauga, Atlanta, Gettysbur
3 Mission Ridge, Sharpsburg, Chick
ahominy, the wilderness an,
Spottsylvania, the loss frequentl
Z reached and sometimes exceeds
D 40 per cent, and the average Q
: killed and wounded on one side O
! the other was over 80 per cent.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
HOW IT WORKS.

A Graitonite, who was In Kansas
during the late epicene election
down there, says that he overheard
the following conversation in
Leavenworth:
Miss Smith-"Golng to vote to.
day, Jennyin
Jenny-Cert."
Miss S.--"Who for |"
Jenny-"Mr jones'"
Miss S.-"W.h-a t Why he's a
nasty, hateful Democrat, and they
do say that he smokes and plays
billiards, and has even been seen
coming out of a saloon"
Jenny-"I know all that, but
then he has such a long, silky beard
and broad shoulders, aud he must
be six feet four inches high. o,
he's just too sweet for any use"
Miss Swell, for that matter,
Mr.. Brown, his competition, has
the most ravishingly lovely dark
brown eyes, and the p r.r.r.ettlest
mustache-yum, yum, yum %
JenDy-"Yes, but he's married,
and Mr.. Jones isn't; besides, Mr..
Jones belongs to our choir, you
know. Just wait q minute till ]
put in my ballot" and the sweet
thing melted into the crowd that
surrounded the polls. Returning
in a few minutes, she remarked,
with a scornful jerk of her bangs !
"What do you think, Miss Smith |!
That detestable old maid of a Sal
Simpkins is electioneering for
Brown
Miss S.-"No.o.o.0fr
Jenny-"But | tell you she is.
And she has ON that horrid old
bonnet she wore last Spriug, and
she hasn't even the sign of q bus.
tle.Y
Miss S.-"Suffering snakes
Well, if Mr.. Brown has that kind
of following, I'll vote for Mr..
Jones. The idea of old Sal Sim.
klns electioneering for anyone
But I think l see what she's up to-"
Jenny-"What ~
Miss S.-"Why, she's dead In
love with that brother Of Mr..
Brown, and
Jenny-"You don't say so i'
Miss S.-"But l do say so; and
she's just trying to make herself
solid with the fhmily.v
Jenny--sDid you everl The
maneureung old frIghtF
Aud The young ladies drilled up
the street, leaving our Graflonite
q wonder whether Or nos Woman
-a|I<zz. = ~ne6 2 elorionz boon as
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11


Some of the editors of this
State denounce each other as liars
and blackguards as freely as they
would write an item of interesting
news. Such epithets seem to
have no offensive meaning now "a
days. This style of journalism is
somewhat new in Misslssippi.-
jackson State Ledger.
Will the State Ledger allow It.
self to be corrected in one or two
particulars. ~ Editors" do not
denounce each other or others as
liars. The men who do this are
those who through eome hocus
pocus get control Of newspaper
columns and improve the oppor.
tenity to vent then splestl They
call this editing. (2) They do not
know . piece of news when they
see 1t. If they did they would
not have time to spill blood out Of
an ink kee. ~ 9 II il n5fA ) ~sly|5
of journalismn Whatever. Il Il
the license 20 print Unforfs.
nafolv what fh&<a Il <k@< 4. .--.....
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
What "Per Annum" Means.

"Boss, Ize a bit confused bout
suthin',n said one of the negro
whitewashers at the market to
Detective Webb the other day,
"Well, what is itW
"What does per annum mean ~
"Per year, of course"
ga hull y'arF'
"Yesr
"Can't be no mistake p
mo, sir.v
IF | borry 50 Of Abraham John.
son an agree to pay twenty per
cent, per annum dat means twenty
cents a var, does it n
at does.n
"Hul Dar's gwine to be de big
gest row In Kaintuck tonight you
eber hearn tell ofp
"About what p
"About dat per annnm. I bor-
ryed e2 Of de pusaon mcushuned
at twenty per cent. per annIm. an
fur de las f0'teen months he's bin
eoIIectin' twenty eeHts q week IS
regular as clock. Stuck right 20
II, he did, dat per an1uoI Ine1Hf
cherry Saturday night. Ia4d BET
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
MURDEROUs JOKING.

Nashville. Tenn, NAV 3O.-A most re-
markable suicidefY, occurred in Burge &
Rascoe,s drug store in East Nashville
This afternoon, John G.. Bernal. an old
man painter by trade. and yery much
addieted TO iokinp. came into the drug
stora ana going hack whore George Dom
olson ! clerr was puttipg nm medicine
sa,a. .nooraa I'm tirad ofl;v,ng what
ss,,, LIN NO. =,
w nona,.an ,,.,,o o,.sn,o..,,u;n .,on,..
noe'1v' ""o "ao n'.as' .ln a,'. ,,, ,',,,
'a'o nelo .:s, sv'''"lns 'na. - VII mn, Mn
'i,nN nm eaoss 1,ss !, s.,, p..o., ..u.,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
PHIL SHERIDAN.
A Better Point Than ROsssr's.

0AAANA1Oa %A-AI SN@~1 --F~+~
Editor Alexandria Gazette:
Dear Sir:-As a union man from
the firing on Sumpter until the end
at Appemattox, l have, without
surprise, read General Sheridan's
replies to General Rosser, semico-
Ion and all, and I regret to have
to admit that Sheridan is, was and
always will be what General Ros-
ser says be is. AS a member Of
the Illinois Legislature, l joined
with every democrat there the
day after Sheridan Illegally inyad
ed the Louisiana Legislature and
drove out its members at the
point Of the bayonet in protesting
against that outrage upon civil
rights, and the house of which L
was q member wired our nnlimi-
ted censure of his higlr.handed
move to the Speaker of the U. s.
House of Representatives. We
realize how We would have felt to
have our non.republican citizens
branded "bapdittin and our law.
makers treated as criminals, vaga-
bonds and tramps, and itmade our
blood boil to know that United
States troops had been prostitu'
ted to such uses. Years after
wards, upon Decoration Day,
when soldiers from the sunny
South-Norfork. think-had at
Boston hung gigantic wreath of
roses of the soldiers monument,
after the centennial, when all who
had hearts that beat In unison for
peace and the perpetuity of our
union-here in our exposition
building, after Lincoln's friend,
Leonard Sweet, esq, and other
orators had praised the dead and
exhorted the living to do all in
their power to know no North, nc
South, no East and no West, but
to make Union and Liberty one
and inseparable by forgiving and
forgetting the past, and spreading
flowers over the graves of the
blue and the grey, and asking tha1
a just God will reward the tru,
and the brave who battled fol
what they believed was the righ
when the applause. which greet
led these true American senti
ments had subsidized and loyal mel
land women were elated at thu
brightest era which seemed abou
to dawn upon them, Genera
Sheridan was called for and step
Iping forward in substance statet
"that we should not be in a hurr,
to forgive the South" much to thu
disgust Of the whole audience, ant
showing that he has wasted BIZ
time, If his Christian wife has beer
/ able to induce him to say thu
Lords Prayer since the war, il
asking his final Judge "to forgiv'
him as he does others.
| Sheridan Is an instance of th'
fact that education, experience
and position, do not civilize som,
natures, which, given their natura
bent, without those props woul'
grovel In the ditch with the thugs
the prize fighters and their associ
| A DEspIsER OF RUFFIANIsN.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
crRCUIT CLERK.

authorized to announce JAS.
HALL as a candidate for re-
\ the Office of Circuit Clerk at
q election.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
FOR SHERIFF.

authorized to announce W. x.
/ a candidate for re-elec,ioh 10
III Sheriff; subject to the ac-
e county Democratic Conven-
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1887-06-11
bUNTY ASSESSOR.

to announce NOR
|HELMAN as a candidate for
ssessor; subject to the action
hnty Democratic Convention.
to announce JAS
las a candidate for County AS
hbiect to the action of the
|emocratic Convention. AN